Zoyd

[Mark Kohut]

The sixties, any era, has more than one "what happened" about it. It's 
as rich as life 'cause it was. 

Orwell brilliantly stated this in one of his review essays, scoring a work of recent history for just this kind of monopolistic generalizing. 

I still wonder if that inisght of Orwell's is partly contained in P's bi-location metaphor from AtD...

--- On Sat, 8/22/09, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Zoyd
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Saturday, August 22, 2009, 8:58 PM
> We can't get off the 60s and discuss
> VL and IV.
> 
> VL opens in 1984, but a good portion of the text is either
> flashback
> to the 60s,  a discussion of or argument about, what
> happened in the
> 60s. Of course the characters don't agree about what
> transpired in the
> 60s, so we get several competing narratives; one of the
> reasons why it
> is difficult for the reader to come to any definite
> reading.  And, as
> our discussion here of Sales' text on SDS proves, outside
> sources may
> only complicate readings and discussions. Nothing wrong
> with that as
> far I'm concerned.
>